
Title II of the JOBS Act was enacted July 10, 2013 by the Securities and Exchange Commission. As part of the increasing attention and demand for knowledge in the market, Crowd Valley partnered with the visionary team at the World Trade Center in Denver to discuss building companies in the new age.Markus and Valto spoke on the crowdfunding and peer to peer markets evolution, international benchmarks and best practices, and shared the journey the Grow VC Group has taken since its inception several years ago.
Attendees included entrepreneurs and professional investors, including asset managers and venture capital and private equity groups. Despite crowdfunding being a novel concept, there is a lot of built-up demand for knowledge and expertise to enter into the market and leverage crowdfunding. Several attendees expressed their active interest in realizing opportunities in the new market, and one even commented that the future is clearly in streamlined and efficient online models, but how to get there is a challenge.
This is also why several of the extended team are available for workshops on how to plan and navigate the market entry, and build a viable expansion of business or create knowledge to be able to leverage the new age models.
From Denver, the team will be continuing to advise the Kauffman Foundation in the innovation cluster that is Boulder, on setting their research agenda for crowdfunding and the nascent market.
You can listen back to both panels below.
How do you leverage new paradigm shifts such as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in building your company?
Equity crowdfunding will fundamentally change the entrepreneurial ecosystem
This is also why several of the extended team are available for workshops on how to plan and navigate the market entry, and build a viable expansion of business or create knowledge to be able to leverage the new age models.
From Denver, the team will be continuing to advise the Kauffman Foundation in the innovation cluster that is Boulder, on setting their research agenda for crowdfunding and the nascent market.
You can listen back to both panels below.
How do you leverage new paradigm shifts such as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in building your company?
Equity crowdfunding will fundamentally change the entrepreneurial ecosystem

About the author - Paul Higgins
Serial entrepreneur with an operational background in finance and technology companies. Paul was previously responsible for the development of the Crowd Valley product suite as part of the Grow VC Group.
Paul is a regular speaker on new financial models and crowdfunding and has been involved in working with Crowd Valley’s pioneering customers across the financial services sector, as well as advising global institutions such as the World Bank and national regulators such as Italy’s CONSOB.
Paul has over a decade’s experience working in various operational, sales, marketing, and product roles within technology companies, including two B2B startups that have achieved eight-figure exits following 100% year-on-year growth. He started his career in product development and testing roles at IBM’s Hursley Research Lab in the UK before going on to eBay, UBS, and Barclays.
Paul holds an M.A. (Hons) in Computer Science and Philosophy from Churchill College, Cambridge University. He has lived and worked in Texas in the US and Portugal, and speaks fluent Portuguese
Serial entrepreneur with an operational background in finance and technology companies. Paul was previously responsible for the development of the Crowd Valley product suite as part of the Grow VC Group.
Paul is a regular speaker on new financial models and crowdfunding and has been involved in working with Crowd Valley’s pioneering customers across the financial services sector, as well as advising global institutions such as the World Bank and national regulators such as Italy’s CONSOB.
Paul has over a decade’s experience working in various operational, sales, marketing, and product roles within technology companies, including two B2B startups that have achieved eight-figure exits following 100% year-on-year growth. He started his career in product development and testing roles at IBM’s Hursley Research Lab in the UK before going on to eBay, UBS, and Barclays.
Paul holds an M.A. (Hons) in Computer Science and Philosophy from Churchill College, Cambridge University. He has lived and worked in Texas in the US and Portugal, and speaks fluent Portuguese